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November 23, 2017

REVIEW: The Wind Off the Small Isles and The Lost One by Mary Stewart

JayneB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsCanary Islands / England / short-story3 Comments

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The Wind Off the Small Isles is beloved author Mary Stewart’s long-lost novella, now available in digital and perfect for fans of Anya Seton, Daphne du Maurier and Santa Montefiore. 1879. Lanzarote. A wealthy young woman elopes with an impoverished fisherman, leaving her family distraught. 1968. Perdita West, secretary to ... more >

July 26, 2015

REVIEW: Airs Above the Ground by Mary Stewart

JayneB ReviewsAustria / First-Person / horses / mystery/suspense / romantic-suspense / smuggling / veterinarian20 Comments

While having tea with her mother’s school friend Carmel Lacy, Vanessa March learns that her husband Lewis, whom she believes to be in Stockholm on business and with whom she had a row before he left, appears in a newsreel story in Austria. Carmel, assuming Vanessa will be joining Lewis ... more >

January 30, 2015

REVIEW: Rose Cottage by Mary Stewart

JayneB- Reviews20th century / England / friends-to-lovers / Widowed Heroine / World War II11 Comments

Rose Cottage, a tiny thatched dwelling in an idyllic English country setting, would appear the picture of tranquility to any passerby. But when Kate Herrick returns to her childhood home to retrieve some family papers in the summer of 1947, she uncovers a web of intrigue as tangled as the ... more >

October 27, 2014

REVIEW: The Moonspinners by Mary Stewart

JayneB+ Reviews1960s / First-Person / Greece / mystery / romantic-suspense24 Comments

Young, beautiful, and adventurous Nicola Ferris loves her life as a secretary at the British Embassy on Greece. On leave from her job as a secretary in Athens, has been looking forward to a quiet week’s holiday in the lush island of Crete, enjoying the wild flowers and the company ... more >

August 21, 2014

REVIEW: The Gabriel Hounds by Mary Stewart

JayneB Reviews / Book Reviewsfamily relationships / Middle East / mystery/suspense38 Comments

It’s all a grand adventure when Christy Mansel unexpectedly runs into her cousin Charles in Damascus. And being young, rich, impetuous, and used to doing whatever they please, they decide to barge in uninvited on their eccentric Great-Aunt Harriet—despite a long-standing family rule strictly forbidding unannounced visits. A strange new ... more >

May 19, 2014

REVIEW: Madam, Will You Talk? by Mary Stewart

JayneB+ Reviews / Recommended Reads1950s / France / road-romance / romantic-suspense / Widowed Heroine29 Comments

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Dear Readers, A few months ago, a friend of mine asked me to help her clarify something from this book. She needed to know a fact from it but didn’t have her copy handy. Did I have the book and could I look it up? Of course I had a ... more >

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